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The Republican Party, or "Grand Old Party" as it is affectionately known, is one of the world's oldest political parties. Founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854, it espoused the ideals of "free labour, free land, free men". It believed in government support for business, including high ...

Before the Anzacs and Gallipoli another Australian campaign claimed the attention of the world. Australian white women won the right to vote and to stand for parliament. The leaders of the Australian campaign then travelled to England to support their British sisters. They carried a message ...

Our medias full of gossip and scandal. It says a lot about our preoccupations and social attitudes. Historian Kirsten McKenzie studies the scandals of the British Empire. She says they give us an inside view of colonial society and how the British empire worked. Scandals can also shine a light on ...

The links between the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and German fascism have been well scrutinised, and few serious Nietzsche scholars today regard him as having been any sort of proto-Nazi. For a start, he scorned anti-Semites, and he thought German nationalism was ridiculous. But that ...

The two Quarterly Essays of 2018, when read together, represent a powerful call for social and political reform. But they also highlight the deficient conceptions of history often used to diagnose the damage wrought by neoliberalism....